'Authoritarian lunatic' Trump aiming for 'something resembling Nazi Germany in the 30s': GOP strategist

Longtime Republican strategist Tara Setmayer sounded the alarm Sunday on the potential "dangerous" repercussions of another term for ex-President Donald Trump during a conversation with MSNBC analyst and guest host Charles Coleman Jr.

"Tara, we have these competing narratives, I think, on the right, there are people, in some cases, in denial about how powerful MAGA nation continues to be as a guiding force for so many on the right. And then there are folks who are just claiming that there is this desire for a hard pivot. And I want to know, from your perspective, is that sustainable, can it be reconciled, or is this inevitably going to rip the Republican party apart at seams?"

Setmayer replied, "Well, it looks to me like it's already ripped apart its seams. This is not the Republican party that rick and i worked in for decades. this is an authoritarian movement now fully in the clutches of Donald Trump and his ilk. It's obvious. And the last branch of government is the judiciary. That was the guardrail that stopped what was a coup attack in 2020. It is ongoing. The coup has never stopped. They learned from their mistakes, and they are telling us what they are doing. I don't know why this is such news to people, that Trump wants to do these things, and that there are people out there willing to be his accomplices to get this done."

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She continued, "Why is this news? They have been showing us who they are, and telling us what they want to do and trying to do it once already, and now they are perfecting their mistakes. They're making those attempts and telling us they're gonna do it so I'm glad to see that more people are waking up to this, and trying to sound the alarm. We've been doing at the Lincoln Project for years now. But it's important that the American people understand this, this is a very dangerous, precarious time in this country. There are millions of Americans that are susceptible to the continued demagoguery of authoritarianism, and dividing this country in ways that will make this country unrecognizable. And people don't want to admit that that is how dangerous, and close we are to this level of authoritarianism.

The Republican strategist emphasized, "We are going to wake up one day and not recognize our democracy if Donald Trump and his minions, and people who follow Trumpism are back in power. There should be no circumstance whatsoever that a scourge of Trumpism, this lunatic, he is a lunatic — are we listening to the rantings of this mad men? He tells them every single day, he posts them. We should be covering this. The American people should be hearing this. And ,frankly, the media should be pointing out that says the rantings of an authoritarian lunatic wants to turn this country into something resembling Nazi Germany in the 30s. that is the bottom line, i think. and our judicial system has now been, the final frontier. It is our last guardrail to stop him. And the federalist society who has been around for decades. This is the dog that caught the car. They are completely off the rails now and what they were trying to do before. It is not just, conservatives, conservative scholarship. It has turned into authoritarianism and fascism. And now it needs to be stopped."

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